Daniel E Wood

US Patent:

7525542, Apr 28, 2009

Filed:

Mar 15, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/376050

Inventors:

Alexander Stevenson - Bellevue WA, US
Daniel N. Wood - Seattle WA, US
Daniel R. Lehenbauer - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06T 15/40
G06T 15/30

US Classification:

345422, 345421

Abstract:

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the automatic generation of near and far clipping planes for a 3D scene. The viewing frustum is intersected with the scene to determine the range of depth that a particular scene occupies in the viewing frustum. The ratio of the near clipping plane to far clipping plane is adjusted as appropriate to ensure a desired minimum level of Z-buffer precision is achieved. The clipping planes are set sufficiently far outside of the object bounds to prevent triangles which are parallel to the clip planes from being accidentally clipped. An API is provided to allow other programs to retrieve the near and far clipping plane values with the desired minimum Z-buffer precision for a particular scene without having to interact with the Z-buffer.

US Patent:

20100141650, Jun 10, 2010

Filed:

Dec 8, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/330330

Inventors:

Nadim Y. Abdo - Bellevue WA, US
Onur Filiz - Redmond WA, US
Daniel N. Wood - Seattle WA, US
Max Alan McMullen - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06T 17/00
G06T 1/60

US Classification:

345420, 345530

Abstract:

Techniques for improved command level remoting are disclosed.

US Patent:

20150325218, Nov 12, 2015

Filed:

Jul 21, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/805250

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Daniel N. Wood - Seattle WA, US
Max McMullen - Redmond WA, US
Allison W. Klein - Seattle WA, US
Brian T. Klamik - Redmond WA, US
Michael I. Borysenko - Redmond WA, US
Keith D. Melmon - Redmond WA, US
Michael P. Crider - Redmond WA, US
Silvana Patricia Moncayo - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G09G 5/395
G06T 1/60

Abstract:

Buffer display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, at least part of an off-screen buffer is rasterized by an application to generate an item for display by the computing device. One or more communications are formed that describe the part of the off-screen buffer which contains the item that is to be copied to update an onscreen buffer.

US Patent:

20150035844, Feb 5, 2015

Filed:

Oct 15, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/515444

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Daniel N. Wood - Seattle WA, US
Max McMullen - Redmond WA, US
Allison W. Klein - Seattle WA, US
Brian T. Klamik - Redmond WA, US
Michael I. Borysenko - Redmond WA, US
Keith D. Melmon - Redmond WA, US
Michael P. Crider - Redmond WA, US
Silvana Patricia Moncayo - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G06T 1/60

US Classification:

345545

Abstract:

Buffer display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, at least part of an off-screen buffer is rasterized by an application to generate an item for display by the computing device. One or more communications are formed that describe the part of the off-screen buffer which contains the item that is to be copied to update an onscreen buffer.

US Patent:

20140359488, Dec 4, 2014

Filed:

May 29, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/905077

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Anshul Rawat - Kirkland WA, US
Aaron Butcher - Redmond WA, US
Joshua Kaplan - Seattle WA, US
Brett Waldbaum - Sammamish WA, US
Daniel Wood - Maple Valley WA, US
Yuan-Chou Chung - Bellevue WA, US
Mary-Lynne Williams - Seattle WA, US
Ana Lilia Otero Diaz - Woodinville WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/0481

US Classification:

715760

Abstract:

An operating system of a computer provides an interface, such as an application programming interface, through which applications on that computer can store link data in a consistent format across applications and resources. Thus, when an application stores link data, it sends a command to the operating system providing the link data, invoking a command to store the link data. When an application retrieves link data, it sends a command to the operating system to retrieve link data. Thus, an application can store link data for a history of resources accessed, favorite resources accessed, and other types of resources to be accessed. As a result, the operating system provides a single mechanism for a heterogeneous set of applications and a heterogeneous set of resources to store link data in a single repository.